They came once again to stand in a cold Winter rain March 12 on one of the busiest intersections on U.S. Highway 2 in Monroe at Kelsey Street. They started showing up around 10:00 am with picket signs. Young moms and dads with kids in tow, lots of 30 and 40 somethings, old men in beards, old men with no beards, women in wheelchairs, a dog or two, business owners, wage earners, blue collar Johnnies and white collar Jennettes.

A cross section of America they were, these community members from in and around Monroe and the greater Sky Valley. They came to say again to the powers that be we do not want a huge Walmart store planted down in the North Kelsey shopping area just a stone's throw from busy U.S. Highway 2 in the city. Click READ MORE to bring up the video player.Read more...

There is a brisk public debate underway as of this date (2/11/11) about whether Walmart should be allowed to build a big 155,000 square foot store just a few hundred feet from U.S. Highway 2 at the Kelsey Street shopping area in Monroe.

Many in the community fear a huge traffic nightmare should that store be allowed to go in there. Others do not care for Walmart’s reputation as a killer of “Main Street” businesses or the way it has allegedly treated its suppliers and employees in the past, according to various reports.Read more...

(JERUSALEM) -- These are images that made quite a stir on the Internet in the first week of February 2011. Hundreds of thousands had viewed them by that first week and many were of the opinion the videos are proof of extra terrestrials in some sort of flying spacecraft.Read more...

(SEATTLE, WA) -- For many people outside our area of Washington State (the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett-Bellevue Metro market) there are only a few iconic images they know us by: the Space Needle, Pioneer Square, the Pike Place Market, Mt. Rainier, Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, generic outdoor shots (mountains, beaches etc,) and perhaps a few we’ve left out.Read more...